At euen doun es it brogt,
Un-lastes, and welkes, and gas to noght."—(Ps. lxxxix. 6.)
See Hampole's P. of C. l. 707. [576] arche-wold. See [note] to l. 255. [582] gette or get, poured down. gette is the preterite of geten or gete. See l. [585]. Cf. O.E. yhete (ȝete); pret. yhet; p.p. yhoten (iȝote).
"Yhet over þam þi wreth."—(Ps. lxviii. 25.)
See Ps. xli. 5, lxxiii. 21. Percy's Reliq. vol. ii. 81. Cf. "a metal geoter," a metal caster, Kyng Alys. 6725. out-yhetted, poured out, Hampole's P. of C. 7119. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. Gote. [592] moned = moneð = month.
P. 18. l. [598] dragen by metrical license for wið-dragen, withdrawn. ðe watres win = the water's force (strife). Winne in O.E. has the signification of to fight, contend with, strive, and hence to get. Cf. O.E. wunne, victory; wan, contrivance, remedy. See l. [347].
"Alle we atter dragen off ure eldere,
ðe broken drigtinnes word ðurg ðe neddre;
ðer-ðurg haueð mankin
boðen nið and win."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 11.)